Almost Ready

Oh My Goodness — it's almost here.
My sister, Tina and I put on a Stampin' Sisters Retreat weekend.
It is a wonderful weekend with 60 stamping friends.
Tina and I have 8 projects planned to fill their weekend
with plenty of stamping.  A project would be a set of 5 or 6 cards,
usually some type of scrapbook project, 3-D gift projects.
We try to cover all types of paper crafting.
This is our 10th year — the big weekend starts Friday night.
I am busy cutting and prepping all the projects.
Here I have piles started to sort this project into 60 bags full
of supplies.
SortingYesterday my husband was awesome — he cooked the meals
for us (usually he only cooks the meat for dinner and I have to do the rest
but last night he even made big salads to go with the steaks)
and look — I even got him to help me sort the piles
(only for a few minutes but every minutes counts).
Let's just say he wasn't happy about the picture taking (heehee).
Tony helping
Ok, time to get back to work or I'll never have it finished in time.
Keep coming back — next week I can show you the projects and all
the fun we had.  Maybe you can join us next year.

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Memories in the Making Birthday

I love when stamp sets have a double use.
Today’s featured stamp set is Memories in the Making.
This is a Project Life stamp set so it works great for memory
keeping but also is a fabulous set for making cards.
This was another card the ladies got to make at our
Winter Warm Up last Saturday.
Memories in the MakingThe card base is Thick Whisper White with a layer of
Whisper White attached with dimensionals.
The swirl stamp is stamped with Lost Lagoon ink.
Happy Birthday is stamped with Memento ink in the center of
the swirl.  Then stamp a few flowers scattered around
with Watermelon Wonder and So Saffron ink.

This is definitely a quick and cute card.
Great to make up a few to have on hand.

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Botanical Thanks

Botanical Builder Framelits
are a blast to “play” with.
There are so many fun framelits in this set.
Today’s card was part of the Winter Warm Up
stamping day that I held with team members last
Saturday.  Roseann made this card and I just love the
cut out edges on it.
Roseann BotanicalWe started with a Basic Black card base —  4 1/4″ x 11″ score at 5 1/2″.
Then we used the leaf framelit lined up along the edge and cut out.
This is repeated on both edges of the card.
Use the Softly Falling embossing folder on the front of the card.
We used Real Red cardstock to cut out flowers for the card front.
I love the flower with the cut section on the petals — you can pop
it out a little for a dimensional look.
We used the Endless Thanks stamp set with Memento ink
on a 1″ strip of Whisper White cardstock, use the Triple Banner
Punch to create the banner edge.
We used the White Perfect Accents for the center of
the flowers.

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